2025-08-04

NASA's Lunar Trailblazer mission ends in disappointment

The Lunar Trailblazer mission to the moon officially ended on July 31, but it wasn't a complete journey. NASA said today that its teams lost contact with the satellite shortly after its launch se [...]

2025-08-04

Science Reveals the Surprising Origins of the Potato

Potatoes as we know them today are the product of a hybridization that took place 9 million years ago between two plants, one of which was an ancestor of the tomato. [...]

2025-08-04

Earth Is Spinning Weirdly Faster, Making This Tuesday One of the Shortest Days Ever

Earth will complete its daily rotation between 1.25 and 1.51 milliseconds faster than usual, and scientists aren't quite sure why. [...]

2025-08-03

Efforts to Ground Physics in Math Are Opening the Secrets of Time

By proving how individual molecules create the complex motion of fluids, three mathematicians have illuminated why time can’t flow in reverse. [...]

2025-08-02

Peacock Feathers Are Stunning. They Can Also Emit Laser Beams

Scientists hope their plumage project could someday lead to biocompatible lasers that could safely be embedded in the human body. [...]

2025-08-02

Trump Promised to ‘Drill, Baby, Drill.’ The New Rigs Are Nowhere to Be Found

With clean energy more cost-competitive than it once was, the White House’s oil-first strategy is faltering. [...]

2025-08-02

Look to the Sky: Bright Fireballs Appear During the Perseids Meteor Shower

Look up, and if you're lucky, you could see dozens of meteors in the sky each hour. [...]

2025-08-02

NASA's latest mission to the ISS features a bacterial experiment

Scientists are sending several strains of disease-causing bacteria to the International Space Station as part of the Crew-11 mission. This experiment isn't the plot to some cheesy horror film, bu [...]

2025-08-01

AC or DC: Which Is Better?

Your gadgets run on direct current, but the electricity in your home is alternating current. What’s up with that? [...]